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- The Invisible Circus
(Reviewed January 18, 2001)
- Having trouble sleeping? Then I heartily recommend seeing this boring, overly earnest, beautifully photographed snooze-fest. The lovely lovely Cameron Diaz definitely should stick to comedies, because her performance here (as a flakey, cause-minded 1960s hippie chick) is a real bore. Man.
As is the movie itself. All of the Cameron Diaz scenes are flashbacks, as her just-turned-18-years-old sister retraces the steps Cameron took that led to her death in Europe. Along the way, kid sis (played by the dark and delicious Jordana Brewster) ends up tripping on acid, stumbling around the Continent, and eventually bedding Cameron's old boyfriend (whose name, I kid you not, is "Wolf"). I briefly came out of catatonia when Jordana graced the camera with a tasteful but tantalizing nude scene, which was absolutely the only thing I enjoyed in the entire picture.
Jordana's next role will be in a car-jack caper called "Fast and Furious," which probably will make the awful Nicolas Cage version of "Gone in 60 Seconds" look like a cinematic masterpiece. So much for sensitive art-house snoozers!
Back Row Grade: D (saved from an "F" by Jordana's jiggling jugglies)
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